Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming?

Date	2011-04-24 14:42 -0700
From	Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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Subject	Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming?
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On 4/24/2011 2:26 PM, Lew wrote:
> Patricia Shanahan wrote:
...
>> Consider an arithmetic type Widget, like BigInteger, with a multiply
>> method that returns the Widget representing the product of this and a
>> Widget argument.
>>
>> Now write Widget's square method:
>>
>> public Widget square() {
>> return multiply(this);
>> }
>>
>> Is that what is being discussed?
>
> Of course, the OP will have to clarify this, but the example given was:
>
> myObj.myMeth(myObj)
>
> This represents a client, not 'this', calling a method that takes the
> reference itself as an argument. Stefan Ram gave a motivating example:
>
> System.out.println( System.out );
>
> Your example doesn't fit the proffered pattern.
>

OK. Suppose Widget does not offer a square method, but I need the square
of the Widget referenced by x:

Widget xSquared = x.multiply(x);

Patricia

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Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> - 2011-04-24 00:10 +0200
  Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-23 18:31 -0400
    Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-23 18:32 -0400
  Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> - 2011-04-24 00:57 +0200
  Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-24 06:55 -0700
  Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-04-24 12:01 -0400
    Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-24 15:21 -0400
      Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-24 12:54 -0700
        Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-24 17:26 -0400
          Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-24 14:42 -0700
            Re: Is it sign of bad Object Oriented programming? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-04-24 21:06 -0400

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